Tax-assessor&#39;s percentage-table.



S. F- 6: B. B. KENNEDY.

- TAX ASSESSORS PERCENTAGE TABLE. APPLICATION FILED MAR. 11, 1907.

PATENTED MAY 19, 1908.

UNITED sT rEs PATENT OFFICE.

SALEM F. KENNEDY AND BLANcHE B. KENNEDY, 0F LAKEVIEW, MICHIGAN.

TAX-ASSE$SURS PERCENTAGE-TABLE.

specificationoi Letters Patent.

Patented'May 19, 1908..

To all whom it may concern;-

Be it known that we, SALEMF. KENNEDY- and BLANCHE B. KENNEDY, both citizens of the United'States of America, residing at Lakeview, in the county of Montcalm and State of Michigan, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Tax-Assessors Percentage-Tables; and we do hereby declare the following to'be a full, clear, and exact description 0 the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same. I

- columns of figures representing various assessed valuations, each valuation being in horizontal alinement with the proper amount in the percentage column, said chart having therein one or more openin s through which one or more columns on t e page of the book may be seen, whereby when the chart is adjusted on the book page with a column of figures thereon showing through the opening in the chart, the correct assessment or amount according to the percentage at the top of the column will appear in said opening opposite and in alinement with the respective valuation on the adjustable chart. Said chart has also a column of guide numbers parallel with the assessmentvaluation column, whereby any particular number may be more readily found in the valuation column; all of which'will more full appear by reference to the accompanying rawings, in which:

Figure 1. is a plan view of the adjustable chart; and, Fi 2. a plan view. showing a portion of the iook leaf having 'the assessment amounts thereon. Fig. 3 is an edge view of the improved device with the parts united. 1

1 re resents a sheet of cardboard, or other suitable material in which are one or more longitudinal openings 2 and 3, (two beingshown and of suitable dimensions to expose one column of the figures, together with the assessment rate above the same, shown at 7 on the page or leaf 6 of a book rovided' with any convenient number of t ese columns, based on any convenient number of different percentages of the amounts found in the columns of figures 4 arranged along side of and arallel with the o enin s 2 and 3 on the adthe columns 7 are calculated in accordance with the percentages represented by the figable chart is provided with a clip 9 extending across the upper edge of the same, and ada ted to embrace the edge of the chart and t e edge of the sheet 6 being attached to the chart and slidable on the sheet 6 whereby the chart is more readily adjusted to expose through the openin 2 or 3 the desired column of figures on t e sheet 6, and to accurately locate the respective valuation figures on the chart opposite the correct assessment figures in the columns. The chart shown is provided with an opening, a column of valuation figures and a column of guide figures, in duplicate. Obviously a chart having a single combination of these would be uite as practical, the onl difference being t at the chart shown has a little wider bearing upon the upper edge of the sheet and is a little more convenient to adjust upon the page 6.

In operation the adjustable chart is laced upon the page 6 in such'position thatt e desired percentage and the column offigures below the same, is exposed throughone of the openings in the chart.

By finding the figures representing any 100 given valuation in the column of-assessment terest due on any amount at any given rate,

an assessment on stock, or for mutual insurupper sheet of less Width than the lower sheet and provided with spaced longitudinal openings and vertically extended columns of spaces between the openings and between t e openings and the edges of the-upper sheet, the openings corresponding to the width of the columns of spaces in the lower sheet, and a clip connected to said upper sheet and adapted to bG'diSPOSBd over one edge of the lower sheet, whereby the upper sheet may be adjusted transversely of the lower sheet to ex ose predetermined columns of spaces thereof free end of the upper sheet a apted no be separated from the entire surface of the same when required.

through the a ertures, the 20 ower sheet to expose the In testimony whereof we affix our signatures in presence of two witnesses.

SALEM F. KENNEDY. BLAN CHE B. KENNEDY. Witnesses BENJAMIN FrKNIER, C. W. VINING. 

